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Channel NewsAsia - 2 hours 54 minutes ago

Fire at Woodlands Drive 16; no injuries reported

SINGAPORE: A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon at Woodlands Drive 16, Blk 539.

No one was injured.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) received a call about the fire at 1.25pm.

SCDF officers managed to put out the fire within five minutes.

The fire was contained within the living room of the 7th floor unit.

SCDF is investigating the cause of the fire. —CNA/vm

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Channel NewsAsia - 1 hour 9 minutes ago

Tremors felt in various parts of Singapore Tuesday morning

SINGAPORE: Tremors were felt in Geylang, Marine Parade and St George’s Lane Tuesday morning.

MediaCorp’s hotline received several calls informing it of tremors in these areas.

The National Environment Agency said the 6.9—magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Southern Sumatra island, which is about 580km from Singapore, was detected at 5.02am local time.

Sumatra island was rocked by two powerful aftershocks in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with local tsunami alerts being issued on both occasions, the US Geological Survey said. — CNA/ac

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Channel NewsAsia - Tuesday, February 26

More premium bus services for suburban housing estates

SINGAPORE : ComfortDelGro has introduced eight more premium bus services, providing direct and faster connection from suburban housing estates to city areas in Robinson Road and Shenton Way.

From February 25, the buses will service estates in Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Panjang, Choa Chu Kang, Punggol and Sengkang.

Thereafter, the services will be extended to Bukit Batok in the coming weeks.

Residents need only pay a flat fare of $3.60 for a one—way trip.

There will be no concessionary travel but standard transfer rebates apply for commuters using ez—link cards.

The bus services will only operate during the morning peak hours from Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays, and is scheduled to arrive in the Central Business District (CBD) before 9am.

ComfortDelGro now runs 33 premium services. — CNA/de

Channel NewsAsia - 1 hour 4 minutes ago

AWOL NSman Teo’s accomplice gets 6.5 years’ jail, 6 strokes of cane

SINGAPORE: Ong Boon Jun and National Serviceman Dave Teo Ming were good friends. When Teo was caught with a rifle near Orchard Road last year, it was learnt he had earlier been with Ong who did not report the matter to the police.

For being an accomplice in the incident, Ong was sentenced to 6.5 years’ jail and six strokes of the cane on Monday.

Ong was with Teo in a Geylang hotel room before he was caught in a toilet at Orchard Cineleisure later that night.

Ong’s lawyer, Amolat Singh, said his client realised he should have left the hotel room when he saw that Teo had the rifle.

Mr Amolat Singh said: "He was looking forward to the minimum mandatory sentence of five years. As you have heard, he has been sentenced to six—and—a—half—years. It’s quite close to the maximum of seven years.

"We will visit him in prison to take his instructions. As you know, we act on instructions. If he instructs to appeal, then we will file the necessary papers to appeal."

Ong’s adopted parents and a cousin were also in court. Ong’s mother was visibly shaken, wiping her eyes a few times outside the courtroom.

The judge said he had considered the facts and implications of the case. He said it was incumbent on Ong to report the accused, Dave Teo, to the police so that no harm would come to anyone.

More so, the judge said, because Teo had told Ong he was going to commit armed robbery.

Teo’s next pre—trial conference is on 6 March. For Ong, his sentence is backdated to the start of his remand last September. — CNA/ir

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Channel NewsAsia - 35 minutes ago

NEA says haze situation set to improve

SINGAPORE: Over the past three days, air quality had been affected by an increase in land and forest fires in Indonesia’s Riau province, due to a dry spell in the region.

However, the situation improved on Monday with visibly clearer skies. The National Environment Agency’s pollutant standards index also showed that the air quality was back in the ’good’ range.

At 4pm, the PSI stood at 44 after days of moderate’ air quality.

On Sunday, PSI rose to 56.

Most school officials said they are keeping an eye on the pollutant standards index. If the situation worsens, they have their alternatives such as substituting outdoor activities with indoor ones.

According to the National Environment Agency, rain over the past two days in central and Southern Sumatra helped to alleviate the haze.

The latest satellite pass also showed two hotspots in Sumatra, a significant drop from the hotspot count of 100 on 21 Feb.

Impending showers and strong winds are expected to ease the situation further, improving the air quality in the coming days. —CNA/vm

Originally posted by sir_peanuts:

ok. it's a situation that totally didn't cross my mind. will a medic be trained for it? usually who become medics? pes A, A lvl graduate?

Usually when you're in the medic course after you pop from recruit, they will teach you the basics & you've got to ask if you wanna know more & I've mentioned, medics are mainly to assist the paramedics. Usually, its the pes A & B who will be more like to be medics

should have just make him "famous" by stomping him

Temporary Closure of Slip Road at Tampines Flyover

To facilitate maintenance works, the slip road connecting Tampines Road to Lorong Halus / TPE (PIE) at Tampines Flyover will be temporarily closed to traffic from 28 February 2008 to 1 March 2008 from 1am to 5am.

Directional and information signs will be placed along the affected roads to inform and guide motorists.

Please refer to the attached map for the alternative route.

Should motorists have any queries, they can contact the LTA hotline at 1800-CALL LTA.

Commissioning of Signalised Junction of Jurong West Street 22 / Jurong West Street 25 / Jurong West Ave 3

The Land Transport Authority will be commissioning the signalised junction of Jurong West Street 22 / Jurong West Street 25 / Jurong West Ave 3 on 28 February 2008 at 10.30am.

Motorists are advised to drive carefully when approaching the traffic signals and to observe the traffic signal indications. Enforcement officers will be deployed at the location to guide motorists.

Should motorists have any queries, they can contact the LTA hotline at 1800-CALL LTA.

Channel NewsAsia - 34 minutes ago

AWOL NSman Dave Teo’s accomplice gets 6.5 years’ jail, 6 strokes of cane

SINGAPORE: Ong Boon Jun and National Serviceman Dave Teo Ming were good friends.

And when Teo was caught with a rifle near Orchard Road last year, it was learnt he’d earlier been with Ong who did not report the matter to the police.

For being an accomplice in the incident, Ong was sentenced to six—and—a—half—years’ jail and six strokes of the cane on Monday.

usually NSmen who serve their NS with SCDF as an ambulance medic will most definately encounter maternity cases. Usually the medic will just assist the paramedic when it comes to delivery so your friend is not joking at all.

Channel NewsAsia - 2 hours 49 minutes ago

Police, SCDF receive 60 calls about Sumatra quake—induced tremors

SINGAPORE: The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) received about 60 calls from the public concerning tremors felt in certain parts of Singapore, following an earthquake in neighbouring Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Monday.

The Meteorological Services confirmed that an earthquake occurred in southern Sumatra and said it registered 7.5 on the Richter scale.

MediaCorp’s hotline received several calls informing it of tremors in Robinson Road, Sembawang, Jalan Sultan, Toa Payoh and Pioneer Road.

Police said there was no cause for alarm. The SCDF said the public should remain calm.

The SCDF’s advice for those inside a building when a tremor occurs is:
a) Take cover under a table;
b) Keep away from items made of glass or any hanging object;
c) Do not use the lift;
d) Do not use any naked light, in case there is a gas leak.

After vibrations have stopped:
a) Stay away from any exposed electrical cables and hanging glass objects;
b) Report any gas leakage;
c) Help the injured and call SCDF if the injuries are significant;
d) Report any incidents or issues of law and order to the police.

— CNA/ir

Reuters - Tuesday, February 26

BOC Aviation to lease 8 Airbus A320s to Qantas

China's banking regulator gave banks approval a year ago to establish leasing companies, seven years after it stopped issuing licences in order to clean up the industry. (Reporting by Eadie Chen; Editing by Alan Wheatley and Edmund Klamann) - BEIJING, Feb 25 - BOC Aviation, the aircraft leasing arm of the Bank of China , said on Monday that it will lease eight Airbus A320 aircraft to Qantas Airways Ltd , Australia's biggest airline.

The agreement is the second deal between Qantas and BOC, which leased three A320s to Qantas in 2004, the Chinese bank said on its Web site, www.boc.cn.

BOC Aviation will deliver the planes between the third quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 to Jetstar, Qantas's low-cost Singapore-based subsidiary.

Singapore-based BOC Aviation, which Bank of China acquired in 2006, said it now had 70 planes leased to airlines worldwide.

It has another 64 aircraft on order for delivery by 2013.

Chinese banks are also actively expanding in domestic leasing to diversify their income streams.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China set up a leasing company in September, while Caijing magazine reported last week that China Development Bank was awaiting approval to inject 8 billion yuan into a Shenzhen leasing firm.

China's banking regulator gave banks approval a year ago to establish leasing companies, seven years after it stopped issuing licences in order to clean up the industry.

Channel NewsAsia - 2 hours 51 minutes ago

Flight SQ672 shuts down one engine before landing safely in Japan

SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Japan had to shut down one of its two engines before landing on Monday due to engine problems.

But flight SQ672 still managed to land safely with no reported injuries. The Boeing 777—200 plane was carrying 210 passengers and 13 crew members.

A Singapore Airlines spokesman said: "The cause of the incident is being investigated by engineers and the aircraft is expected to return to service once investigations are complete and components changed."

Flight SQ672 is a turnaround flight and does not continue to another destination.

"As a result of the incident, the return leg from Nagoya to Singapore has been delayed. Singapore Airlines is doing all it can to transfer customers affected by this delay onto other flights today," the SIA spokesman said.

He added that hotel accommodation will be arranged for passengers who need to catch a flight on Tuesday if they are unable to make transfers on Monday itself. — CNA/vm

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Channel NewsAsia - Monday, February 25

Chingay Parade travels to northern Singapore

SINGAPORE : The Chingay Parade received an encore in the heartlands on Sunday as it travelled to the northern part of the island.

Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, who is also the MP for Sembawang GRC, launched the travelling parade in Woodlands at the open field next to Causeway Point Shopping Mall.

Mr Khaw also unveiled couplets and lit up the Chingay floats.

He led the procession on top of a HIPPO bus.

The travelling parade consists of 10 Chingay floats.

Some 4,000 turned up at the launch. Among them were some new Singapore citizens, who were invited to travel with the Chingay procession from Woodlands to Yishun.

On Saturday, the parade was at Bishan and Toa Payoh, attracting crowds by the hundreds with its riot of noise and colour. — CNA/ch

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Temporary Traffic Diversion along Cross Street

To facilitate the construction of a temporary viaduct as part of stage 1 Downtown Line works, traffic along the stretch of Cross Street fronting Far East Square Building to China Square Building (before the taxi stand), will be temporarily diverted from 24 February 2008 at 5pm onwards till end March 2008.

Information signs will be placed along the affected roads to inform motorists of the works ahead.

Please refer to the attached map for more information.

Should motorists have any queries, they can contact the LTA hotline at 1800-CALL LTA.